Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Lula face off in last debate before vote

By MAURICIO SAVARESE
Associated Press

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro faced off on Friday in the last debate before Brazil’s elections on Sunday. The two-hour encounter on the nation’s most popular TV station mostly centered on economic hardship, the issue that has moved most of the few undecided voters in the narrow contest between the leftist and the far-right leader. The man universally known as Lula, who leads polls so far and governed between 2003-2010, and Bolsonaro had had only one face to face debate beforehand. Debates in the election’s first round featured several other candidates, none of whom garnered more than 5% of the Oct. 2 vote.